Computer crashes. Please Help!


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My computer crashes when I play games. It gives me the blue screen of death XP style. being win xp pro and all. And all it tells me that is even remotely useful is a big long line of junk, and when I find the error in the event viewer it doesn't tell me anything else that is useful to me.

Does anyone know what might be causing this?

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The most important thing when asking for help with any issue is to give us your specs. Just to guess since you haven't I'd say you have a driver issue. Look for updated drivers, or even older ones, anything that isn't what you have. Also if you could tell us what api the game is using when you play, that would help.

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My guess is that the problem is a misbehaving game. Don't play the game until you figure out a way to make the game run withouth violating the XP system.

Always run the game in compatibility mode. Some games play better in Win95 compatibility although they are "made for Windows 98". (Right click on the icon, find the target, right click on the .exe file, select settings)

The dump file will mean little to you. Under the %systemroot%Minidump directory, you will find mini.dmp or full.dmp. These are the 'error files', or the dump files, if you selected this option in the system Control Panel --> System icon --> Advanced tab--> Startup and Recovery options.

Usually, disabling extra, unneeded SERVICES will prevent the failure. Ensure you don't disable any critical services (especially if networked). [Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> Services]

For example: I disable the Task Scheduler (MTASK), and actually change several AUTOMATIC startup SERVICES to MANUAL. Some of those I change to MANUAL: Alerter, RIP, Run As Service, QOS, SNMP..., Fax Service, Windows Time, Indexing Service.

Some of these services perform important functions in certain networks. Be sure you don't need these.

To recover from a blue screen, on reboot, press F8, and choose, boot from the LAST KNOWN GOOD CONFIGURATION. Always do this if a blue screen error occurs.

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